{"id":6454,"date":"2009-06-26T15:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/06\/greenpeace-opposes-the-cap-and.html"},"modified":"2009-06-26T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T15:26:50","slug":"greenpeace-opposes-the-cap-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/06\/greenpeace-opposes-the-cap-and.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace opposes the Cap and Tax bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Isn&#8217;t this a grand day when lefties and the rightwing can get together to defeat a bill? Doesn&#8217;t it make you want to join hands and sing &#8220;Kumbaya?&#8221; Of course we want it defeated for entirely different reasons but what the heck! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/press-center\/releases2\/greenpeace-opposes-waxman-mark\">Greenpeace doesn&#8217;t think the bill goes far enough in destroying our economy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since the Waxman-Markey bill left the Energy and Commerce committee, yet another fleet of industry lobbysists has weakened the bill even more, and further widened the gap between what Waxman-Markey does and what science demands.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n&#8220;As it comes to the floor, the Waxman-Markey bill sets emission reduction targets far lower than science demands, then undermines even those targets with massive offsets. The giveaways and preferences in the bill will actually spur a new generation of nuclear and coal-fired power plants to the detriment of real energy solutions. To support such a bill is to abandon the real leadership that is called for at this pivotal moment in history.  We simply no longer have the time for legislation this weak.<br \/>\n&#8220;With many others in the environmental, faith and consumer rights communities, Greenpeace has expressed tremendous concern about the role of offsets in this legislation.  Unless strictly controlled, the abuse of offsets could prevent real emission reductions for more than a decade.  The decision to move authority over offsets from EPA to the Department of Agriculture further reduces the likelihood that such controls will be maintained and increases the likelihood they will undermine real reductions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/26\/cap-and-trade-vote-today-complete-with-ap-spin\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Isn&#8217;t this a grand day when lefties and the rightwing can get together to defeat a bill? Doesn&#8217;t it make you want to join hands and sing &#8220;Kumbaya?&#8221; Of course we want it defeated for entirely different reasons but what the heck! Greenpeace doesn&#8217;t think the bill goes far enough in destroying our economy:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415,399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-2","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Greenpeace opposes the Cap and Tax bill - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/06\/greenpeace-opposes-the-cap-and.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Greenpeace opposes the Cap and Tax bill - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wow! 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